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Photo by Brett Jordan from Pexels As those who’ve met me will know, I’m not the smallest of people, and in fact, I’m probably amongst the...

Photo by Anna Tarazevich: When I was 14 I came second in a writing contest and stopped writing till some years later… Overreaction? Not...

Yesterday I talked about the possibilities and challenges afforded by Virtual environments and Hybrid events, today I’m going to be...

Photo by ICSA from Pexels In advance, I know that a lot of what I'm going to say now is going to cause people to argue with me, I'm fine...

As a GM, indeed as any volunteer at a convention, you sometimes find yourself doing things that go over and above the nature of what you...

Photo by Aleksandar Pasaric from Pexels A long time ago (we were still in the eighties) I read an article in Dragon magazine about...

Alien: The Musical When you’re running games at conventions, you can’t be sure which way those games are going to go. When you’re...

So one thing I've been considering for the past few years is why roleplaying. I mean, it takes significantly more effort to get a...

Been a rough couple of years this last few have, mum died in 2017, dad died last year, his greatest fear, of being alone in a hospital. ...

"He killed himself because he loved you, because he believed in the world as you see it." This is but one line of a novel that will...

Eric Van Lustbader was one of the first authors that I became seriously enthused with, and my enjoyment of his stories was a high point...

Serial killers are a difficult subject to get right, it's easy for them to slip into the realm of farce, where their convoluted schemes...

Minor spoiler included, not for the plot, but the timeline of the book The death of an Emperor, and the machinations that will always...

A mass murder is just the beginning of something that threatens to engulf the universe in death and slaughter. This book has everything I...

An interesting book, telling of an interesting life. Ron Garan has been a Fighter Pilot, an Astronaut, a Father, and a Husband, and here...

Driving across galaxies in a Land Rover Interstellar zombies (but are they?) Lost Hope, Found Love Two perspectives, one story,...

Content Warning for Sexual and Physical Violence Several weeks back, I got a free advance copy of Sammy HK Smith’s Anna, and while I...

I've been considering this since yesterday, about whether to post out about this sort of thing and the effect it has on the community at...

I'm a Geek, always have been, likely always will be, from a time before it was allowed, even encouraged to be a Geek, from the time when...

Every year, we get asked what the product would have to be to win the awards, what are we looking for, what do we judge things based on,...